Associate Professor of Bionano Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge

Ljiljana is an Associate Professor of Bionano Engineering and her research is focused on design of biocompatible hybrid materials and enzyme-inspired systems for catalysis, sustainable manufacturing, and healthcare applications such as drug delivery and biosensing devices. Her group currently works on development of green strategies for textile dyeing, artificial enzymes for transforming CO2 into valuable compounds, drug delivery strategies for solid tumours and materials to detect and remove aged (senescent) cells.

Ljiljana studied chemistry at the University of Zagreb, obtained PhD in biospectroscopy from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and worked on DNA structuring and enzyme reconstitution as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Dortmund. Prior to joining Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, she led a research group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Centre for Functional Nanostructures (2009-2014). She is also an active science popularizer, art-science curator, and the co-author of the field-establishing Molecular Aesthetics book (MIT Press 2013), and the first textbook on Bionanotechnology (Cambridge University Press 2020), which was recently awarded the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title.